Ghrelin Immunoreactive Cell Amounts in the Abomasum in 4-Month-Old Calves by Feeding Different Amounts of Prebiotics and New Synbiotics

Table 1

Ghrelin, IR, cell number 1 mm², and average cold carcass weight (kg) of 12-week-old calves fed with different amounts of inulin and synbiotic.

Group	Reaction intensity		Cold carcass weight (kg ± SD)
	Pars pylorica	Abomsum fundus
CoG	5 ± 4.22	13 ± 8.01	42.6 ± 6.88
PreG6	0 ± 0.07^a	15 ± 5.86	44.8 ± 0.99^c
PreG12	0 ± 0.05^a	6 ± 4.50^a	51.4 ± 2.76^a
PreG24	0 ± 0.04^a	4 ± 3.99^a	54.0 ± 2.89^a
SynG6	0 ± 0.89^a	10 ± 3.27^b	49.7 ± 2.41^b
SynG12	0 ± 0.11^a	5 ± 2.93^a	52.3 ± 1.61^a
SynG24	0 ± 0.03^a	2 ± 0.79^a	49.6 ± 1.85^b

Data are presented as mean ± S.D. a- significantly compared to CoG (); b- significantly compared to CoG (); c- not significantly compared to CoG ().